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GTAIV to use Engine from Table Tennis
WedgeTalon writes "Joystiq reports that GTAIV will be using the engine that powered Rockstar's Table Tennis — Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE)." From the article: "I contacted MTV News' Stephen Totilo to see just how definite this was, and he returned, I met with Rockstar publicists and producers for Table Tennis twice prior to the game's release. Both times they volunteered that RAGE would serve as the engine for all next-gen Rockstar games. Including GTA? I asked both times. Including GTA they said both times."
We beat up hookers with ping-pong paddles now?
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Won't someone please think of the children!
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Just imagine what secrets they could lock in there! Perhaps, you can pick up a prostitute and shoot some ping-pong balls around!
That game is pretty good looking. They could do worse than to use that engine.
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GTAIV supports up to five pedestrians on screen at once.
The few surviving samurai survey the battlefield. Count the arms the legs and heads and then divide by five.
isnt table tennis ping pong, where you hit a small ball with a paddle. The last time I played that videogame it was a on a new machine less than 20 years old with really nice beep sounds. Boy, I cant wait for the next GTA . (actually reinds me of a Simpsons epsiode where they are abducted by some kind aliens who show off their ping pong game) :)
I don't see why anyone would be surprised by this. You think Rockstar spend R&D $$$ to create an engine that would only be used for one game?
Is it just me, but does anyone else think it's odd that the people who brought us "Hot Coffee" decided to go with an engine specifically designed to model bouncing balls?
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this must be their reaction to all that videogame violence diatribe
...they really need to work on their animation. The uncanny valley isn't going to come in the form of characters that don't look quite real; it will come in characters that look perfectly realistic and/or believable, but move like mannequins on ice skates. Rockstar's Table Tennis is a perfect example of this, and I expect GTA will be too; the best looking games of this generation will be the ones with the smoothest, most appropriate animations, NOT necessarily the ones with the perfectly normal mapped skin pores. Both the PS3 and 360 have VPUs - USE THEM!
This just in... Slashdot.org reports that Joystiq.com reports that Gamespot reports that TotalVideoGames.com reports that MTV reports that a public relations spokesman who was involved in the marketing for one of Rock Star games has claimed that he has full knowledge of future product implementation decisions.
Bleech. If I get a vote, I vote GTA4. I don't think we need to introduce MORE weird shit into our acronyms.
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I've been pounding my palm into my temple, trying to force myself to imagine why in the world Rockstar Games created and published a table tennis simulator.
It makes perfect sense to me now--it's so obvious! It's just a proof-of-concept of their new GTA engine.
They didn't make table tennis and think to themselves: "hey, it turns out we've got a great new foundation for our 3d sandbox franchise!" It's been the other way around the whole time. "we need a great new foundation for our 3d sandbox franchise... but let's do something small and simple first to get all the kinks out."
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a ping-pong minigame in the next GTA.
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
What exactly did rockstar do?
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Those are going to be the sweatiest-looking sex avatars ever rendered in a console game.
There will be an increase in violence associated with ping pong tournaments. I'm not sure what RockStar is up to but you can be sure it's going to be good. That little Japanese kid thinks he is so tough at the other end of the table... until I pull out my flame thrower.
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I was waiting for this news to break. I figured it was coming sooner or later. I haven't seen the table tennis game, but from what I've heard it's pretty cool. But, come on, look at Rockstar's game releases. Did you really think they were designing a game engine for the 360 just to make a table tennis game?
the engine is beautiful. Now let's see them catch up with SAMP for the next game:
http://www.sa-mp.com/
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why the hell Rockstar Games made a bloody table tennis game (and promoted the hell out of it). It's a tech demo, like DOA Beach Vollyball. Then again, I'd be mad if I paid $50 bucks for a tech demo and didn't even get scantily clad women to go with it.
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God damn this is a bad joke.
I knew there was more to it than ping pong, I thought there might have been a secret joke or something that R* would put out a ping pong game, and this is it, their game engine is so advanced that they can take a minigame out of the full game and release it as a full fledged game on its own. At first I thought it just just a throwback to Pong but now I can see the truth, this will be one awesome engine.
Table tennis doesn't have wide expanses of outdoor scenery. Look at the screenshots available at http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/gallery/1427/Rocks tar-Games-Presents-Table-Tennis/p1/. They can't compete with any other modern engine like UT, Doom, or Source.
For Rockstar, those are good looking screenshots. But why not license something tried and true, something that's good for outdoors. UT comes to mind. Hell, if Bethesda licenses the Oblivion engine, use that.
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It sounds like no one else commenting actually played GTA3/VC/SA. The engines in those games, while impressive, were buggy as hell. I only bought SA (I played the others a bit), but I was pissed when I kept getting stuck in the ground and mowed down by rival gangs. It was simply impossible to believe that this was the third game made with this engine, yet they still couldn't get collision detection down.
And call me crazy, but I'm totally holding out for a Wii port. Smacking your hoes feels much better when done in a natural motion. Hitting X just doesn't cut it.
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